How Does Solar Power Work?

The basics of solar power.

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Solar power is probably the cleanest, most viable form of renewable power available and it can be used in any forms to help power your house. Many gardens now use solar lights or solar garden water features. The availability and wide use of solar power in gardens shows exactly how versatile it is as a source of energy. The technology and the systems are becoming smaller, more covenant and better looking than when they were first created and used. Early examples of solar power systems can be seen in California where, in the 1980s, enough solar power panels were installed to power over 10 million homes.

How do photovoltaic tiles work?

Simply put photovoltaic tiles and other forms of solar power work by converting some of the power in sunlight into a clean form of electricity that can be used in our houses. The Pv cells consist of a definite and a negative slice of silicon located under a thin slice of glass. As the protons of the sunlight beat down onto the Pv cell they knock the neutrons off the silicon. The negatively expensed free neutrons are attracted to the silicon but are trapped by the magnetic field that is formed from the opposing fields. Small wires on the silicon catch these neutrons and when associated in a circuit an galvanic current is formed.

This reaction gives Direct Current electricity though, and it must be passed straight through an inverter to be converted into an Alternating Current used in our homes to power any electrical items. Some of the power is lost in this part of the process as the inverter is only nearby 95% productive but this is a much greater efficiency than was once available.

The nature of the Pv cell means there is limited or no maintenance required and there are no enchanting parts; this means that a typical Pv cell can last up to 40 years with no work besides an each year clean.

How can I use them to power my house?

There are any ways to use solar power nearby the house and not just for powering. You can use it to heat your hot water, heat your pool or even your central heating or if you have plenty of roof space and a inexpensive amount of sun you can get a grid tie system; a grid tie principles means that not only can you power your whole house but while those times when you generate an excess of electricity you can sell it back to the grid. An efficiently solar powered home will be able to reasonably generate in the middle of 75 and 100% of their own power and because of the grid tie principles this means you may not have to pay for electricity ever again.

How Does Solar Power Work?